MAD Academy is an internship program at City-As-School, one of NYC's most radical transfer public high schools, co-founded and directed by Maria Krajewski.
Utilizing an entirely student-driven, experiential, project-based curriculum, our students develop a professional body of work under the
guidance of NYC’s top creatives while earning academic credit to earn a NY State high school diploma.
Today we’re back at SYPartners, my favorite place!
The home of lovely people and even lovelier food.
We’re here to do more work for the new mural, we have to make sure it’s beyond amazing.
( I don’t know the word for that)
We talked about what we want people to get out of the new mural when they look at it and showed them some of our rough sketches.
A lot of the sketches showed the city being used as a classroom which makes sense...since the name of our school is Cityas School.
On Monday the cool kids (art kids) met up with Magda and made art and sketches. They focused on elevation and looked at the mural space from different perspectives and angles outside (no they did not